A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section at least performs a process including: receiving a recording instruction at least specifying a location at which data is to be recorded; determining whether a data recording which is performed in accordance with the recording instruction is an appending recording, a first time pseudo-overwrite recording or a second time or more pseudo-overwrite recording; generating data including location information before replacement having information set therein according to the result of the determination; and controlling the recording/reproduction section to record the data in one of the plurality of ECC clusters of the write-once recording medium.